It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

